During the New Horizons' press conference this evening one of the shining stars was Alice Bowman, the Mission Operations Manager (MOM). She inspired me with her words to students and people everywhere:
"Please tell your children and anybody out there, do what you are passionate about.
Don't do something because it's easy. Do something because you want to do it,
give yourself that challenge. You will not be sorry for it."
And it gets even better further into the mission update when she was asked about being nervous as they waited to hear back from the spacecraft today:
"Back to the parent and child story, you have a lot of faith in your children,
but sometimes they don't do exactly what you expect them to do.
It's sort of that feeling; you want them home at 8 o'clock,
but they're not there and so you worry.
In this instance, our spacecraft did exactly what it was supposed to do
and the signal was there for us to capture, it was great."
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